Letters

The quaint Village of McBride is often unfairly described as “remote,” and perhaps that was accurate in some distant past. Today, the trip from our front door in the Comox Valley on Vancouver Island to […]

To the editor: I don’t agree with Bob Zimmer regarding the Town Hall discussion concerning Mountain Caribou area closures. His inaccuracies show a lack of understanding: “People have been going into the backcountry, snowmobiling, hunting, […]

Dear Editor, I am writing in response to the article in the February 14 issue of the Goat about the passengers who waited for hours in the extreme cold for the Via train to Vancouver. […]

Charlie Crane was just a baby in 1917, when he was rocked by the Halifax explosion. The collision between Military ships in the Halifax Harbour. He lost his hearing, eye sight, and he could not […]

Dear Editor, Well here we go again! It’s been not a quiet week since we got hit with a blast of winter. The last few years LDM is never ready for winter. It was 36 […]

Dear Editor, The Alzheimer Society of B.C. thanks the people of McBride, Valemount and the Robson Valley for their encouraging response to January’s annual Alzheimer’s Awareness Month and to our campaign intended to challenge stigma […]

Dear Editor, In the December 6, 2018, issue of the Goat, the editor, in commenting on his visit to the Zilmer Glacier last summer, notes the irony of using a fossil fuel powered vehicle to […]

For too long, the working people of B.C. resource towns like McBride haven’t had a real voice in the political decisions directly effecting their lives, and livelihoods – about pipeline projects, new mines, forestry tenures. […]